I am a college student here in the city of San Francisco. Lived here for most of my life. I am currently attending SFSU working toward my major of BECA (Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts).

I love to take pictures of the everyday things I see in life. My reason? Whenever I see someone else’s photos of places far away or of things unique that I don’t see where I live, it makes me think about how different things are outside of where I live. The things I see everyday in my area, the things I find ordinary and boring, could be something new and/or unique to others. I want to share what I see through my eyes and share those pictures with the world. Those photos can be found on my Flickr, link above.

I enjoy music a lot, I was in choir back in middle and high school (and one semester at SFSU). I listen to music of all kinds, some old school, some of today’s popular dance music, and a whole lot of J-pop/Anime music/VG music. I even do a bit of DJ work as well, well very very little actually. I can’t play any music instrument very well, but I do have some experience with playing piano.

For some reason I really get into music from animes and sometimes I get the urge to play them on piano. What came from this hobby of mine of just playing on piano for fun was a YouTube series that I started on November 2009. I call it my “Piano Melodies Series”, a series of piano videos where I play just the simple melodies of various music pieces, ranging from anime music, video game music, and more. Check out my YouTube Channel for these videos, link above.

I only got into Japanese culture probably about a couple of years ago, but when I was younger I grew up with video games, my favorite game being Super Mario World for the SNES. It was my first exposure to Japan, though I didn’t know what Japan was at the time. I also was watched the good old classic Pokemon series when it was on TV, though I thought of it as a cartoon, not as anime. I remember when Pokemon just started and my classmates in elementary school would ask me, “What’s your favorite Pokemon?” (Of the original 150). I always said Pikachu was because that was the only Pokemon I knew. I think my classmates bugging me about that made me watch and like Pokemon. I also watched Yu Gi Oh when it was aired here too. Not so much DBZ, I never understood it and I still don’t. My interest in playing video games and watching others play video games online have inspired myself to start “Lets Play”ing myself. (“Let’s Play” is a term use for people who record their own game play of video games with commentary.) I’ll be doing solo and group LPs with various games.

When Ireally got into Japanese culture, I will make a future post about it. The Origins off my interest in Japanese pop culture. Keep checking my blog for it and more, here at Topic “Otaku”.

I have a passion for the Japanese culture, and only recently have found out that I have for most of my life. I created this blog November 2009 in an attempt to finally have a permanent blog place and it’s been working well. I also have a passion for connecting with the world in a pen-pal style way.